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It was an enormous sum, and would become hers if she should order the carriage, and, taking Marie and the casket with her, drive leisurely along the highway until stopped by a troop of soldiers that would suddenly surround the carriage. A politely smiling face would then appear at the window of the carriage, and a courteous voice would say: "Don't be alarmed, ladies. You are with friends.
We feel charmed to see such exquisite imaginations conjured out of the little old familiar anecdote of John Alden's vicarious wooing. We are astonished, like the fisherman in the Arabian tale, that so much genius could be contained in so small and leaden a casket.
The Nubian looked anxiously into the face of the physician, and then, as if satisfied with the scrutiny, rose, and, with noiseless steps, left the room. In a few moments he re-entered and placed in the physician's hands a small casket of ebony, exquisitely worked and studded with gems.
It flashed upon Gunhild that her mother must have been made so happy on receiving a letter from her daughter telling of her safety, that she had taken everything else out of the casket, and placed the letter there as her most priceless treasure. Gunhild turned as pale as death; her heart was being wrung.
"So much the better," replied his friend; "go and set fire to your house directly; take out of it nothing but the casket in which the seals were kept, and take it directly to the chief Minister, telling him you know no one with whom you can more safely deposit it; then go home again and save whatever you can.
The bony hand darted out towards the casket, and her heart stood still. She knew that hand wiry, energetic, capable. "Nick!" she whispered. "Nick!" He brushed her aside, and, again in that dry, breathless croak, "There isn't a moment to lose!" he said. In another instant he would have had the shining thing in his grasp, but in that instant Noel's wits leaped to full understanding.
She had missed, had lost, she feared, her own jewelbox; a casket of no great treasure to others, but of a largely estimable importance to her. After the heavy ceremonial entrance and exit of dishes, she begged the earl to accompany her for an examination of the contents of the box. As soon as her chamber-door was shut, she said, in accents of alarm: 'Mine has disappeared.
If only poor Paw could have waited a little before he claimed the spotlight until prices fell a little or Nat got back with that "long green"! Maw swallowed her bitter pill. She went to see Uncle Clem and ask! And Uncle Clem was kind. "He'll buy a casket he's willin' fur that an' send a wreath and pay fur notices, an' even half on a buryin' lot; but he said he couldn't do no more.
I engaged another solicitor, a young man of ability, and who professed personal esteem for me. Mr. Had I held conversation with Sir Philip under the archway as reported by the witness? Had I used such or similar words? Had the deceased said, "I had a grudge against him"? Had I demanded the casket? Had I threatened Sir Philip that he would repent? And of what, his refusal?
The ladies of Brookfield allowed themselves to bow to her with the greater humility, owing to the secret sense they nursed of overtopping her still in that ineffable Something which they alone possessed: a casket little people will be wise in not hurrying our Father Time to open for them, if they would continue to enjoy the jewel they suppose it to contain.
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